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The things that happen: Two boys and cancer
Writer Julia O'Malley and photographer Marc Lester spent a year following teenage best friends Steve Vue and Mitchell Xayapraseuth after both were diagnosed with rare childhood cancers. This is the story of their treatment and how they and their families explained what happened to them.
At graduation time, the aloha spreads across cultures
Draping a graduate's neck with bands of candy and flowers has become as expected in many Anchorage families as watching a graduate fling a mortarboard cap into the air.
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Julia O'Malley: 10 years later, mother still searches for son
Barbara Klita left me one message, then another. When I didn't respond right away, she called a third time. When I answered, she introduced herself and told me I should write about her son. Her son is missing in Taiwan, she said. Maybe I remember him? His name is Fred Frontier. He grew up here.
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Would you pay for a whiff of Alaskan Springtime?
How did P&G, an enormous company with boat-loads of research and development funds, get the idea to name a fragrance that smells like grandma hugs after a season in Alaska that smells, literally, like crap?
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Julia O'Malley: A Spenard corner that won't clean up
Spenard has been cleaning up its act for a decade, but at Spenard Road and Benson Boulevard, the bad old days hang on. Hard-drinking homeless people leaning on the bench at the bus stop or snoozing in the weedy brush between parking lots. Somewhere between 12 and 20 regulars tend to congregate there...
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Julia O'Malley: The network of a bowl of soup
The new soup kitchen at the corner of Cordova Street and Third Avenue is one of the most visible indicators of how the evangelical community in Anchorage has come of age, becoming more collaborative, organized and sophisticated.
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Julia O'Malley: Outside outrage blazes, but Alaskans always forgive Don Young
It used to be that our lone congressman, Don Young, who avoids talking to media, could be himself while visiting small-town Alaska. Off the road system, word didn't travel far. He was free to do what he customarily does: open his mouth before engaging his brain.
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O'Malley: Nick Moe and the possible
People have a tendency to talk down to Nick Moe, 26, who is a week into a two-week write-in campaign to oust Ernie Hall. He might not win, but he's not the newbie he once was. He's probably worth paying attention to.
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O'Malley: Downtown woes have two ingredients: People and booze
Which story about intoxicated people behaving badly at night in downtown Anchorage do I tell you first? I have a notebook full of them. Pick any street that intersects with Fourth Avenue.
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O'Malley: Moose's Tooth owners scramble to feed always-hungry city
From where Rod Hancock, Warren Hancock and Matt Jones sit at the helm of the food and entertainment empire that is the Moose's Tooth, the Bear Tooth Theatrepub, Bear Tooth Grill and the newly named Broken Tooth Brewery, the city never seems satisfied. Trying to keep up with the demand without taking...
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Bars sell the drinks; should the public be picking up the tab?
Should we be paying for extra police to deal with mayhem caused by downtown bars?
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What chased the Luch kids down the trail?
In hindsight, those finish-line whispers were right, something was off about the Luch family, those little kids -- as young as 8 -- who competed with adults in local running races and placed.
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Bio
Julia O'Malley writes a general interest column about life and politics in Anchorage and around Alaska. She grew up in Anchorage and has worked at the ADN on and off as a columnist and reporter since 1996. She came back full time as a reporter in 2005.
As a reporter, she covered the court system and wrote extensively about life in Anchorage, including big changes in the city's ethnic and minority communities.
In 2008, she won the Scripps-Howard Foundation's Ernie Pyle award for the best human-interest writing in America. She has also written for the Oregonian, the Juneau Empire and the Anchorage Press.
Email her at: jomalley@adn.com.
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